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14 September 2018 — Press release
UK aid to connect UK schools with classrooms around the world
Film director Richard Curtis joins International Development Secretary, Education Secretary and the British Council to launch new education programme.
14 September 2018 — Press release
UK warns Asad against “man-made catastrophe” in Idlib as new UK aid package announced for north-west Syria
The UK is scaling up support to meet emergency humanitarian needs in face of the threat of imminent military offensive by Asad regime and Russia.
6 September 2018 — Press release
UK aid will protect more than 820,000 people from threat of lethal landmines
Pioneering technology will help eliminate landmines across Africa and Asia helping the world’s most vulnerable communities access safe land.
6 June 2018 — Detailed guide
What is UK aid?
The UK aid logo is used widely in the countries where we work, on items such as health clinics, school books and emergency food supplies, to publicly acknowledge development programmes funded by the UK taxpayer
18 December 2017 — Blog post
DFID in the News
The facts behind media stories about UK aid and DFID’s work.
Latest from the Department for International Development
- UK aid to protect endangered wildlife and create thousands of sustainable jobs.
- 'Whatever she may study, she can’t escape from washing dishes’: Gender Inequity in Secondary Education
- “I started working because I was hungry”: the consequences of food insecurity for children’s well-being in rural Ethiopia
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What the Department for International Development does
The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty. We are tackling the global challenges of our time including poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. Our work is building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too.
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